PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE

Business Manager Artistic Director Managing Director JENNIFER LONSWAY MARILYN FOX BRUCE WHITNEY

Safe at Home An Evening with Orson Bean

Executive Producer MARILYN FOX

Producers ALLEY MILLS BEAN ELSPETH A. WEINGARTEN

Associate Producers ELIZABETH KARR RITA OBERMEYER SARA NEWMAN-MARTINS VALERIE HAVEY

Set & Light Design Sound Design NORMAN SCOTT KEITH STEVENSON

Stage Manager Mr. Bean’s Wardrobe JULIANNE FIGUEROA by Kirkland

Directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos CAST

Orson Bean*

The performance runs 75 minutes and there will be no intermission.

Safe At Home is adapted from Mr. Bean’s memoir of the same name. The book is available on Amazon.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

This show is about many things, but to me it’s most importantly about gratitude. Orson Bean has gone through more highs and lows than most people could handle in a lifetime. But he doesn’t go about lamenting the lows, or bragging about the highs. He’s simply grateful. I hope you’ll learn from listening to his story – as I have from directing it – that being grateful is a pretty good way to go about living. Speaking of which… Thanks, Orson.

--Guillermo Cienfuegos

*Member of the Actors Equity Association, the professional union for actors and stage managers in the United States.

The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, and in violation of the author’s rights. BIOGRAPHIES

Orson Bean was nominated for a SAG award for his performance in the fi lm Being John Malkovich. As an actor and singer, he starred on Broadway for twenty years winning a Theater World Award and a Tony nom- ination in the process. As a panelist, he was seen on To Tell the Truth for eight years. As a comic, he appeared on The Tonight Show over 200 times, a hundred of them as substitute host. He was Loren Bray, the crusty storekeeper, for seven years on the western drama, Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman… and played Mrs. McCluskey’s husband for the fi nal three seasons of Desperate Housewives. He beat Charlie Sheen with a cane on Two and a Half Men. It seems to have done Charlie no good.

Guillermo Cienfuegos (Director) most recently di- rected PRT’s hit revival of Harold Pinter’s The Home- coming, which was named LA Times Critics Choice. He is best known for his production of Shakespeare’s Hen- ry V, for which he won Ovation and LA Drama Critic’s Circle awards for Best Director, and received Ovation, LADCC and Stage Raw nominations for Best Produc- tion. Cienfuegos has also directed seven World Pre- mieres for PRT, including Keith Stevenson’s Ovation nominated cult-hit comedy series Out There On Fried Meat Ridge Rd., Wendy Johnson’s Concealing Judy Holliday and Vince Melocchi’s Julia, which transferred to New York’s 59E59 Theatres Off-Broadway after being nominated for three LA Weekly Awards, including Best Director. His fi rst collaboration with Melocchi,Lions , which received an Ovation nomination, was later published by Samuel French. Cienfuegos has also directed for the Chalk Repertory Theatre and Nom de Guerre, a performance collective, which he co-founded.

Alley Mills Bean (Producer) Ms. Mills, a magna-cum-laude graduate of the fi rst class of women at Yale, earned an M.A. in drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Although probably best known for her six-year run playing Nor- ma Arnold on television’s celebrated series The Wonder Years, she has starred in a dozen other series and numerous TV feature fi lms. On the big screen, she played the lead opposite John Candy in the movie Going Berserk. On the west coast she has worked at the Mark Taper Forum, the American Conservatory Theatre, among others and is a 20-year member of the Pacifi c Resident Theatre. Currently, she is a regular cast member of the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful, playing the bi-polar baddie Pamela Douglas. She lives in Venice, California, with her beloved husband Orson Bean. Elspeth A. Weingarten (Producer) PRT’s The Homecoming, the award-winning Henry V and all three plays of Keith Stevenson’s cult-hit comedy series Out There On Fried Meat Ridge Rd., which returns to PRT this December. Sara Newman-Martins (Associate Producer) is proud to have produced many of the recent Main Stage shows at PRT, several of which were nominated for Best Produc- tion: The Homecoming, A View from the Bridge, The Indians are Coming to Dinner, Becky’s New Car, The Browning Version, Wild Boy, Fata Morgana, My Antonia, The Scarecrow (Garland Award Winner for Best Production), Anatol, Everyday Life. Sara has also produced for film and television, including Jude Law’s debut film, Shopping. She has appeared in many productions here, including The Indians are Coming to Din- ner, Master Builder, Tonight at 8:30, The Blue Dahlia, Everyday Life (LADCC Nominee for Featured Actor), Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Ardele, Dutchman. Julianne Figueroa (Stage Manager) has a BA in History and Theatre Arts from UC Santa Cruz and a MFA in Production Management from CalArts. Juli has recently worked as the Associate Production Manager at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Recent freelance Production Management credit includes Timboctou (REDCat; Ca- lArts Center for New Performance & Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico); recent Pro- duction Stage Management credits include Waitless (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary (Edinburgh Fringe Festival and LATC Encuentro - A National Latina/o Theatre Festival). Recent PRT Stage Management credits include The Homecoming, all three parts of the Fried Meat Trilogy, A View from the Bridge, Random Acts and Loyalties. Norman Scott (Set & Light Design) is very grateful to be a member of PRT. In addi- tion to his work as an actor – most recently in PRT’s hit production of Henry V – Nor- man has been responsible for the set design, lights and/or construction of many pro- ductions here, including The Dock Brief, The Homecoming, Henry V, Pure Imagination, Welcome To Santa, Concealing Judy Holliday, Julia, St. Joan Of The Slaughterhouses, Time Of Your Life, Loyalties, A Question Of Mercy, The Browning Version, Of Mice And Men, Divorcons, The Master Builder, Gaps In The Fossil Record, Fragile Life and many others. His training was primarily from Jean Shelton and East 15 Acting School. Keith Stevenson (Sound Design) is known as writer and star of his cult-hit comedy Out There On Fried Meat Ridge Rd., for which he received an Ovation Award nomi- nation for Best Original Playwriting. Sequels include A Fried Meat Christmas and The Unfryable Meatness of Being. Stevenson also directed Blunt Force at PRT and Neil McGowan’s Lone-Anon, which later played at Rogue Machine Theatre and was named one of LA Weekly’s Top 10 Plays of 2013. He and McGowan co-founded WeeSmall- Films.com and created shorts Like Old Times and Trip and Sloan, which were nominat- ed for Best Short Film at the Austin Film Festival. Press: Borne Identities Assistant to the Producers: Terry Sweet Photography by Vitor Martins

THANK YOU James Beach, Sam Clayfield, Susan Dexter, Ruth Gallanter, Jennifer Lonsway, Kevin MacLeod, Vitor Martins, and Maryjane

To our generous first hosts Deborah Groening and Paul Rother.

This Project is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.